The Cubietruck is based on the dual core Cortex-A7 (912MHz each) ARMAllwinner CPU with 2 GB Ram. Cubietruck has 8 GB onboard bootable NAND flash memory and it is expandable with a micro sdcard up to 32GB. You can connect a monitor/TV via the VGA or HDMI interface. The Cubietruck comes equipped with both Wifi and Bluetooth, Gigabit Ethernet, 2 USB 2.0, 1 Micro USB, OTG, SPDIF, IR, and Headphone. You can easily add a and fit a 2.5 inch Hard Disk Drive to the Cubietruck out the box. Power：DC5V @ 2.5A with HDD and support Li-battery & Real Time Clock “RTC”.

The Cubitruck was released for sale on the 31th. of October 2013 from cubieboard.org.

Supported Operative Systems “OS”:

Android

Fedora

Lubuntu

Lbuntu Server

BTW: I look forward to an Arch Linux distro for Cubietruck ( you can check here: )!

The Cubietruck comes with Android preinstalled on the NAND – and it works out the box. Cubietruck looks after a bootable OS on the Micro SDcard before it boots from the NAND flash memory.

There are 3 different ways to install and run Lubuntu on the Cubietruck:

So far I have only installed Fedora on SD and it went without problems – until I tried to update the newly installed distro! No problems with HDMI. I do not use VGA. I have tried to install the Android and both the Lubuntu distro’s onto the NAND flash and again without any problems. There should not be a big difference between installing to NAND, SD or even HDD.

Your instructions say to create your file system using mkfs.ext4 and then you completely overwrite that using dd. If you are going to copy the filesystem using dd, then you did not need to create a file system. It does not make sense.

Also, if your partition was 15G, then your resulting file system is the size of nandb, around 2G, which is not big enough to put very much software on, which is why you probably made a 15G root partition in the first place.

One should use tar, something like this:

# cd /mnt/nandb ; tar cf – . | ( cd /mnt/sda1; tar xf – )

The above command will copy the directory tree from nandb to sda1, without destroying the file system that you just created using mkfs, and allow use of the whole new root partition.